Big Idea:
Build on Ideas: The "Rhyming-Found-Shape "Poem

During this poetry unit, students will be using many resources: dictionaries, thesauri, rhyming dictionaries, and they will have access to the internet to find information and to read poems.

This lesson was a natural extension of the "Found Poems" lesson. I created this lesson because I saw how interested the students were with the rhyming dictionaries we checked out from the library.

Students explored the rhyming dictionary to create a "Rhyming Found Poem" from the entries under a rime.

While the students are on the rug, pass out 1 rhyming dictionary for each partnership.

Partner B can go first. They will flip through the dictionary (using guide words if they are looking for a particular rime). Once they have found their word, they will say it and then read the words that rhyme out loud to their partner. Then, they will reread it pausing at different places to show another way to use line breaks. Next, partner B will find a word and repeat the process.

"Students, today you will be writing "Rhyming Found Poems". Feel feel to experiment with form and line breaks and adding illustrations to your poems."

Lead a mid-workshop interruption: "Students I want to show you an online rhyming dictionary that will be helpful to you as you want to revise your rhyming poems. The name of the site is called Rhyming.com. Let's say you have the words pillow and armadillo in a poem. Let's see how Rhyming.com can help us learn more one, two, three, or four syllable words that have the long o sound at the end of the words."

Later today or tonight check out this site to learn about five kinds of rhymes including double rhymes and first syllable rhymes.

Big Idea:
Many Real World Problems take more than one step to solve, sometimes 2 steps and sometimes more steps! Order of Operations is essential to all math work, leading to understanding of Algebraic expressions.